[Report file] 'Ahn Woo-jin's school violence' resurfaced... what happened 5 years ago?

Today (18th), Ahn Woo-jin (Kiwoom Heroes) announced his position on the issue of school violence five years ago.

"After the media report, I became a devil who committed severe school violence. The specific truth of the matter was buried amid the criticism of public opinion. However, no matter how much time passed, the four letters of school violence covered all the truth. I didn't think it was," he said.

On the 15th, three of the victims of abuse by Ahn Woo-jin (Kiwoom Heroes) issued a joint statement.

'Unlike the press report five years ago, I didn't feel it was violence from the time of the incident, and I'm getting along well with senior An Woo-jin, who was caring'.

An Internet media outlet and attorney Baek Sung-moon, the agent of Ahn Woo-jin, also argued for 'Ahn Woo-jin's injustice'.

Afterwards, one of the victims interviewed Baek directly to the effect that there was no assault at the time.

Here is a summary of the recent claims:

“There was violence, but it was not serious. According to the statements of the victims written in the police investigation, the victims did not perceive it as violence, and they forgave and reconciled with the perpetrators even before the report. In particular, the fact that they were not charged with special assault is proof that there was no violence using baseball bats and balls that appeared in the article. Nevertheless, based on exaggerated media reports, the player himself was not even heard of the 3 The disciplinary measures of the Korea Baseball Softball Association and the Korea Sports Association, which were suspended in 2018, are excessive.”

As the above claims were raised, protests poured in against us, who first reported the issue of school violence at the time five years ago.

The accusation of 'Giregi that blocked the front path of a promising player with chimsobongdaehan article' has been lined up.

1. Violence proven through objective data

I wrote three articles about this case at the time.

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these three articles, the case The sentence describing the specific aspects of is the first sentence of the first article.

“Four students from the baseball team of Seoul B school, including group A, who is considered a top pitcher, assaulted junior players with baseballs and bats in April.”

All articles after this sentence indicate that there is a suspicion that the school and the baseball club's senior parents have 'reduced and concealed' the incident.

At the time, there was no question of any violence.

This is because both the perpetrator and the victim have officially acknowledged that there was violence.

Prior to the police investigation, this case was dealt with by Whimoon High School's 'School Violence Countermeasure Committee', the so-called 'School Violence Committee'.

The school violence committee is literally an organization that decides the disposition when a school violence incident occurs.

Teachers, parent committee members, and outside committee members are present to decide what to do about the perpetrator.

A summary of the issues at the time is as follows:

Summary of the case (detail)

-In the course of self-counseling for members within the baseball club in early May 2017, the following acts of violence were confirmed by first-year members -In early April 2017, in the baseball

club While 3rd grade C was telling a funny story, 1st grader “I

” laughed and asked, “Have you skipped it?”. After hearing 1st grade “I” say “I didn’t skip it,” 3rd grade A said that the

senior’s answer was disrespectful and called the cell phone. hit the head several times.

-Around April 2017, at the school weight room, in a situation where the 3rd grade pitcher teased the 1st graders for not doing the baseball club life correctly , 3rd grade C hit

1st grade “Ma” in the butt with the

handle of a baseball bat .

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-Around April 2017, during the training course of the baseball club, 1st grade "A" called 3rd grade D "hey",

so 3rd grade D hit his shoulder several times while scolding him.

Seeing this, 3rd grade A hit 1st grader "A" on the head three times with a

baseball .

-At the end of April 2017, when the baseball team received the pitching team training schedule for the day, 1st grader "Da" said (the pitching

team training schedule) was "Honey", and 3rd grade A sat on the floor with 1st grader "Da".

hit him on the shin about 10 times with the handle of a baseball bat.

- Around March-April 2017, 1st grader "A" talked to 2nd grader G during a game in Namyangju, and G joked around.

After the game in Namyangju

, 1st grader A hit 1st grader “A” on the head with a baseball about 10 times.

-At the beginning of May 2017, in the baseball club room, 1st grader "Ra" asked 3rd grader A to leave his seat, and while being scolded by 3rd grader A for being arrogant, he bumped into the baseball belt held by 3rd grader A -May

2017 On the 12th of the month, 3rd grader B hit 1st grade

"Bar" twice in the cheek at the school weight room,

in a situation where the 3rd graders were arguing with the 1st grader because the 1st and 2nd grade baseball club members were swearing and swearing at the 3rd graders .

beating.

-On May 12, 2017, at the school weight room, while 3rd grader C was bragging that the 1st graders were trying to match their seniors and treated them lightly, they hit the head and

buttocks

of 1st grader "A" with the handle of a baseball bat .

beat each other.

<Among the minutes of the B high school riot committee meeting>

The above incidents were confirmed as 'violent acts' by the perpetrator and the victim together at the Academic Violence Committee.

"Four students from Seoul B's baseball team, including Group A (Woojin Ahn), assaulted junior players with baseballs and bats in April last year," we couldn't find any difference from our article's description at the time.

The fact that there was violence at the time was also confirmed by the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education.

At the time, the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education conducted 'consulting on school violence issues' for the school.

This is a procedure to check whether the case has been properly handled in accordance with the regulations, and to order corrections if there are any mistakes.

At the time, the consulting result report delivered to the school was written as follows.

- As a result of reviewing the statements, etc., it seems that school violence was clearly

committed

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According to the instructions of the Office of Education, the minutes of the second meeting of the School Violence Committee, which were held again, recorded that the victims students and their parents, and the perpetrator students and their parents answered questions.

In the confirmation and Q&A of the above offense, both the perpetrator and the victim were charged with the facts of A (Woo-jin Ahn)'s offense, except for the victim who stated that 'A was not hit by the belt, but was bumped while moving'. Confirmed.

Although there was a request for leniency for the perpetrators because it was confirmed that there had been an act of violence, the School Violence Committee made a written apology and 3 days of on-campus volunteering for Ahn Woo-jin.

To sum up, at the time, 'obviously school violence' was a fact proved by objective data.

This is why our report, which was made before the police investigation, was not misinformation.

The fact that there was nothing wrong with our report at the time was also acknowledged by Attorney Baek, who recently posted an article on YouTube and criticized it, in a phone call with me.

Attorney Baek said, "It's not that there was a problem with the report at the time, it's the purpose of informing that the content of the police statement and the position of the victims now are different from the report at the time." It is impossible to anticipate and write an article until it will change.

The reason why the article was written even though there was a request for leniency for the perpetrator on the victim's side was because of the school's reduced concealment of this incident.

It was about three months before the report went out that SBS started receiving reports.

I did not write an article because the main informants did not want this case to be reported for the future of the perpetrators who are still minors.

However, the main informants who were angry at the attempt to cover up and reduce the incident changed their minds and wrote the article.

2. The meaning of the 'victim police report' that has changed from before the report

Attorney Baek released part of the victim's police statement through YouTube.

Last July, a victim's testimony was released in a community, but this is the first time that other victims' statements have been released.

Of course, I also saw this for the first time.

In the public statement documents, the position of the victims was the same.

"I didn't think it was violence, and I'm doing well with the perpetrator's apology. I don't want punishment."

This was the first time I knew that all the victims were in this position in the police investigation.

(The lawyer said he would provide it to reporters requesting a police statement on YouTube, but when I asked for a counterargument report, he refused) One of the victims also had a phone interview with lawyer Baek yesterday and said the same thing.

At the time, the police investigated the case after the matter was raised through the media.

If the statements made public this time are true, the victims seem to have denied that all of the victims acknowledged as violence in the police investigation.

In other words, before and after the public debate, the position of the victims of 'whether or not violence' has changed.

The police statement released this time appears to be evidence of that.

Since the victims kissed each other and claimed that it was not violence, and there is no special evidence, it would have been natural for the police to send it to the prosecution with a 'non-prosecution opinion'.

The letter of encouragement sent to Ahn Woo-jin by the police at the time, which Lawyer Baek released yesterday, would have been possible.

The media and lawyers who recently raised the issue seem to be making this passage the core of their argument.

'The police statement that the violence was minor is the most reliable evidence'.

Will it be so?

As it is now, at the time, before 'athletic violence' became a serious social problem, it took a lot of courage for victims of violence to raise an issue.

Being a junior holding the ankle of 'Ace senior' was to invite 'burial' in the baseball world.

That's what parents said at the time.

“It was difficult because the child was beaten, but outside, the parents of the victims are being cursed at. The parents of the victims are viewed as unscrupulous people. Did you do it and made it this far? The parents of that school say it's really great, but it's really shameless. " -Mr

.

"It's unfair to be beaten, but it's even more unfair to be treated like a strange child.

If you were beaten, there must be a reason, but why are you throwing up? Couldn't that be possible due to the nature of the athletic club

? It drove the atmosphere that way. That was so hard" -A Parent C

Could the juniors who were under such pressure admit the 'violent fact' that could block Ace senior's path through criminal punishment in the police investigation that was conducted after the media reports had already caused a stir?

In other words, isn't there a possibility that the 'denial of violence' in the police investigation, which is different from the time of the school violence, is evidence that reveals the 'hierarchy in the academy sports world' rather than 'evidence of truth different from the reports'?

Which of the statements made at the school's self-consultation before the media report, the statement of the school riot committee, and the statement of the police investigation after the world became agitated, is closer to the truth?

3. Testimonies that the intensity and aspect of the violence were far worse than the reports reported.

Some of the recent media and lawyer Baek's claims include this.

'To the extent of hitting the head with a baseball', 'To the extent of touching the head with the handle of a bat so as not to get bruised'.

It is a level of contact that is embarrassing to call it violence.

Looking at the police statement released this time and the text message from the police that Lawyer Baek released yesterday on YouTube, it seems that the victims also claimed that in the police investigation.

At the time of the report, Ahn Woo-jin's claim that it was a 'joking level' was similar.

However, what the parents of the baseball club knew at the time was very different.

"At the center of the head... the restraint is over 150. That kind of kid hit the head with all his might... The kids were so scared of that sound that the atmosphere was really, really scary..." -Mr. D, parent of high school A

At the time, there was another claim that multiple informants had in common.

The point is that An Woo-jin's violence was habitual.

"Woojin says there are six or seven kinds of tools in the locker. It's a fact that all the kids know openly, and whenever they're bored, they call their juniors and say what they'd like to get hit with..."

-A's parent E

"Woojinie's so-called behavior has been famous since last year, and it seems that the parents of the first graders have raised the issue."

-Mr. F in high school baseball

I heard from multiple parents at the time, and recently confirmed the situation at the time.

In early May 2017, one of the parents of Ahn Woo-jin's juniors went to see the coach as a representative because he couldn't stand Ahn's habitual bullying.

The coach is said to have called An Woo-jin and admonished her.

The informants claim that after Ahn Woo-jin returned to her baseball club, she accused three freshman juniors of why she told her parents such a story.

That night, while Ahn Woo-jin was away from the baseball club for rehabilitation, other 3rd graders gathered the 1st and 2nd graders.

He said why did he gossip about his senior, and he ordered the so-called 'Wonsan bombing'.

And of the three people whom An Woo-jin criticized earlier, it is said that the third graders called out two people except for one who went for treatment.

One claims to have been beaten in the buttock with a bat while 'stretching', while the other claims to have been slapped in the cheek while standing.

The next day, the director of the baseball team and the teacher of the baseball team who knew this fact said that the situation was serious.

We receive statements from all of the baseball team members about the violence that has been happening.

But after he received the affidavit, he took no action.

It was reported to the school that 'the situation ended with an apology and reconciliation'.

At the same time, as if they were reluctant, they announce to parents that they will open a school riot committee if a request for holding a school riot committee is received, even if it is anonymous in the future.

And three months later, in early August, the school actually receives an anonymous fax.

It was a letter demanding the holding of the school riot committee.

So on August 14th, the first school riot meeting is decided.

(Attorney A claimed on YouTube that "SBS was preparing to report on it, so the school riot was held." This is not true at all. We found out that this riot took place about four days after it was held.)

While preparing for the school riot, the school received a statement from the baseball team again.

However, it is argued that this happened to the baseball members who wrote the statement.

"I know they corrected the children's statement and received it again. The school riot committee opened and they said that they knew everything from the outside and came out with an article, so I think the school hurriedly rewrote it. I think they told me to express it as "I never did that."

-A high school parent D

In other words, it is possible that the fact of violence confirmed in the school violence committee introduced above has been significantly reduced compared to the initial statements of junior players.

Parents agreed that among the victims of cases that were actually recognized as facts by the school violence committee, one player who was really 'recurrent violence' was missing.

The school's 'attempt to reduce cover-up' is not the first time we've discovered it.

On August 22, 2017, a day before our first report, an official from the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, whom we spoke with for the first time, said the following about the process of handling the case at Whimungo.

"Someday, then. A strange report came in... From what we heard, the School Violence Committee decided not to take any action against the perpetrators, and contacted them saying they would hold a disciplinary committee and dispose of them. It's not possible. If you see it as a school violence, the school violence committee should take action. It's a bit strange that the school violence committee set it to no action and then separately volunteers in the school. So I told the school to hold the school violence committee again. It was clearly recognized as school violence. It's wrong to not take action after doing it. In the end, that's how the concealment is reduced."

-Mr. E, superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education at the time

The organization dealing with school violence is 'Hakpomwi'.

In addition to violence, the organization dealing with other issues (smoking on campus, vandalism, etc.) is the 'Seondowi'.

At Whimungo, the school violence committee dealing with violent incidents was opened, and all perpetrators were given a 'no action'.

However, a separate leadership committee is opened and Ahn Woo-jin is given a 'campus volunteer' disposition.

The inspector in charge of the Office of Education saw this process as a suspicion of concealment.

It is speculated that he somehow tried to avoid the disposition of school violence, which affects his further studies and employment.

This confirmation by the school district supervisor becomes the main content of our first report.

As you will know if you read it, the focus of all our reports at the time was on the 'reduction and cover-up situation' of schools and senior parents.

It's much better now, but those who experienced the academy sports world at the time can understand what I mean right away.

The assertion that the violence was habitual and more serious than the fact acknowledged by the school violence committee was strongly denied by Ahn Woo-jin and the school at the time, and they are still denying it.

Yesterday, lawyer Baek Sung-moon also claimed on YouTube that it was not true that there were other victims and other violence.

However, at the time, I was able to report while maintaining 'mechanical neutrality', which featured both sides of the argument, because there were consistent claims from various informants.

I chose not to include this in the article at the time.

First, there was a risk that the victims were pointed out as informants and suffered further damage.

Second, I didn't want the perpetrator, who was a minor, to suffer irreparable harm.

This is the only thing I regret about reporting at the time.

What I found out later was that there was secondary damage, such as being 'bullied' by a junior player who was wrongly rumored to have reported.

If I had reported the truth in detail instead of doing a 'minimized report' at that time, wouldn't that player's heart have been bruised?

These days, I understand that Ahn Woo-jin is actively communicating with his juniors along with his agency.

I hope that the junior's heart is also comforted.

4. Ahn Woo-jin's path to 'restoration of honor' and 'lottery'

I once said this on YouTube 'I live in baseball' last July.

“I do not oppose the selection of Ahn Woo-jin as a representative.

I think it is right to give a second chance to those who have been punished by our community, and

the victims at the time did not want to take revenge on An Woo-jin as an individual.

The victim’s position at the time In light of this, I am cautious, but I would not oppose Ahn Woo-jin's professional life and the selection of a representative... Also, it is clear that the criticism and ridicule that Ahn Woo-jin has had to endure since the incident has exceeded the weight of the mistakes he made when he was 18 years old. I think."

This thought has not changed even now.

The three victims who agreed to issue a joint statement seem to have completely forgiven Ahn Woo-jin.

One of them had a phone interview with lawyer Baek Sung-moon, and I saw that he defended Ahn Woo-jin.

Good thing.

It must be the result of Ahn Woo-jin's caressing the hearts of his juniors over the past five years.

It is proof that the victim's forgiveness is being made, which is the process of resolving abusive cases.

If this process is completed, I believe I am entitled to steps for mitigating disciplinary action.

However, the attempt to make the logic that there was no actual violence by claiming that the police statement made after the report was a 'confirmed fact' may be helpful to the player himself.

As explained above, it is because the situation I identified through objective data and testimonies at the time of the report was completely different from what you are claiming now.

The conclusion is this.

In a situation where there are objective data and testimonies like at the time, there will be no reporter anywhere in the world who does not write an article.

If I go back then, I will do the same.

No, if given a second chance, I'll include more details.

After the report at the time, violence in the academy sports world plummeted.

There is also a culture that the perpetrator must be forgiven by the victim in order to become a professional athlete.

As we did five years ago, we will continue to work harder to create a 'violence-free sports world'.